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# scissors

«scissors» in Mova's school dictionary: **a tool for cutting, made of two blades joined in the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, plural (scissors, a pair of scissors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Scissors are a tool for cutting, made of two blades joined in the middle that you open and close with your fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scissors/#m1)

2) A scissor kick or scissor movement is when legs cross like scissor blades. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scissors/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school, children use scissors in art and crafts to cut paper, card and string. Safety rules: walk with scissors pointed down, pass them handle first, cut away from your body, and never run with them. Phrases: a pair of scissors, safety scissors, scissor kick, cut with scissors.

### examples

- Pass me the scissors, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scissors/#x1)
- Hand scissors to someone handle first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scissors/#x2)
- I need a pair of scissors to cut the ribbon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scissors/#x3)
- Never run while holding scissors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scissors/#x4)
- Cut along the dotted line with your scissors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scissors/#x5)
- These scissors are too blunt to cut card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scissors/#x6)
- ‘I know that!’ said the scissors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scissors/#x7)

### note

Scissors is always plural: "The scissors are on the table", not "is". To count them, say "a pair of scissors", "two pairs of scissors". Spelling has a silent c: sc-iss-ors.

### In the corpora

- [Fabric scissors are kept only for cloth, because cutting paper or card makes the blades blunt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/31-crafts-paper-clay-sewing-knitting-slime/15/)
- [The girl picks out the soft eyes of the twin nut «with her little golden scissors».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/91-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell/23/)
- [The girl gives him her scissors.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/92-justso-crab-3-the-moon-pulls-the-sea/3/)
- [Cloth (bù) beats stone, stone beats scissors, scissors beat cloth, the same as rock-paper-scissors.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/14-games-rock-paper-scissors-hide-and-seek/2/)
- [Children do not cut their own hair, because it often goes wrong and scissors near the eyes are dangerous.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scissors» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scissors/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.